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Waymo announces Miami as its next ride hailing city

waymo.com

Get ready for a touch of magic in the Magic City. We're excited to announce that...
Get ready for a touch of magic in the Magic City. We're excited to announce that Waymo One will be expanding to Miami! While Miami is known for its sun and fun, the city is also an emerging hub for innovation. Waymo’s autonomous driving technology offers an opportunity to provide safer, more accessible, all-electric...
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Federal Court Says Dismantling a Phone to Install Firmware Isn't a 'Search'

techdirt.com

Legal Issues This is probably the correct conclusion to arrive at, at least at this point...
Legal Issues This is probably the correct conclusion to arrive at, at least at this point in extremely limited jurisprudence, but it still raises some questions courts will likely have to confront in the future. Is manhandling a phone to make it responsive to a search itself a search, or does the Fourth Amendment no...
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60k people deactivated their X accounts on average each day in one week alone

londonherald.co.uk

The exodus continues… After Elon Musk’s failure to combat misinformation and extremism on X, formerly Twitter,...
The exodus continues… After Elon Musk’s failure to combat misinformation and extremism on X, formerly Twitter, users are continuing to leave the social media platform in a mass exodus. The Financial Times reported that one week in November alone, ‘saw 60,000 people deactivate their accounts on average each day’, cit...
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World on a Wire (1973)

wikipedia.org

1973 West German TV series World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) is a 1973...
1973 West German TV series World on a Wire (German: Welt am Draht) is a 1973 West German science fiction television serial, starring Klaus Löwitsch and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Shot in 16 mm, it was made for West German television and originally aired in 1973 in ARD as a two-part miniseries. It was base...
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Akamai Remembers Danny Lewin

akamai.com
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Billionaire who performed the first private spacewalk is picked to lead NASA

apnews.com

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A tech billionaire who bought a series of spaceflights from Elon...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A tech billionaire who bought a series of spaceflights from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and conducted the first private spacewalk was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday to lead NASA.Jared Isaacman, 41, CEO and founder of a credit card-processing company, has been a close collab...

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Disposable Python environments for ad-hoc analyses

ericmjl.github.io

I recently learned about juv, a package by my SciPy friend Trevor Manz. It builds upon...
I recently learned about juv, a package by my SciPy friend Trevor Manz. It builds upon uv, which, alongside pixi, are the hottest things in Python (and more broadly, Data Science) tooling since pip officially replaced easy_install as the de facto way to install Python packages. uv supports PEP723, which is a Python ...
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Building HTML in Go

templ.guide
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The brain microbiome: could understanding it help prevent dementia?

theguardian.com

Nine years ago, Nikki Schultek, an active and healthy woman in her early 30s, experienced a...
Nine years ago, Nikki Schultek, an active and healthy woman in her early 30s, experienced a sudden cascade of debilitating and agonising symptoms – including cognitive and breathing problems and heart arrhythmia – and was investigated for multiple sclerosis. But three brain scans and numerous X-rays later, there was...
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Humanloop (YC S20) Is Hiring Product Engineers in London and SF

humanloop.com

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Wubuntu: The lovechild of Windows and Linux nobody asked for

theregister.com

Wubuntu is a stripped-down Kubuntu, with custom themes and additional tools to make it look (a...
Wubuntu is a stripped-down Kubuntu, with custom themes and additional tools to make it look (a lot) and work (superficially) like Windows 11. The identity crisis starts with its name. While the primary website is wubuntu.org, that name is rarely seen inside the OS itself. Other parts of the website call it "Windows ...
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US Senators implore Department of Defense to expand the use of Matrix

element.io

This week the FBI, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and partner agencies in...
This week the FBI, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and partner agencies in New Zealand, Australia and Canada began advocating for the use of end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) communications. The move is in reaction to law enforcement backdoors in the public telephone network - including AT&T...
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How close is AI to human-level intelligence?

nature.com

Bigger AI chatbots more inclined to spew nonsense — and people don’t always realize

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Licking this "lollipop" will let you taste virtual flavors

arstechnica.com

Demonstrating lollipop user interface to simulate taste in virtual and augmented reality environments. Credit: Lu et...
Demonstrating lollipop user interface to simulate taste in virtual and augmented reality environments. Credit: Lu et al, 2024/PNAS Demonstrating lollipop user interface to simulate taste in virtual and augmented reality environments. Credit: Lu et al, 2024/PNAS Virtual reality (VR) technology has long sought to inco...
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Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'

gizmodo.com

When the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was killed in a targeted shooting Wednesday morning in...
When the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was killed in a targeted shooting Wednesday morning in New York, politicians from his home state of Minnesota posted sympathetic messages on social media. But those responses of support were soon drowned out by a very different tone, as people shared horror stories o...
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The Surprising New History of Horse Domestication

scientificamerican.com

The world we live in was built on horseback. Many people today rarely encounter horses, but...
The world we live in was built on horseback. Many people today rarely encounter horses, but this is a recent development. Only a few decades ago domestic horses formed the fabric of societies around the globe. Almost every aspect of daily life was linked to horses in an important way. Mail was delivered by postal ri...
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Bitcoin price hits $100K for first time in history

cointelegraph.com
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macOS Packaging for Ungoogled-Chromium

github.com
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All of Google Offline?

ycombinator.com
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Move semantics in Rust, C++, and Hylo

lukas-prokop.at

People really struggle understanding the semantics, but std::move is the only mentionable feature of C++ in...
People really struggle understanding the semantics, but std::move is the only mentionable feature of C++ in this context. The technical explanation is that an lvalue is converted into an x-value, but most people in my programming circle using that language are not even familiar with it. #include <iostream> #include ...
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How the Arpanet Protocols Worked

twobithistory.org
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Oscilloscope Music N-Spheres

oscilloscopemusic.com

3.5'' FLOPPY DISK + PLOTTED SLEEVE + BOOKLET (24 PAGES) CONTAINS INSTRUCTIONS, ARTWORKS AND CODE SNIPPETS...
3.5'' FLOPPY DISK + PLOTTED SLEEVE + BOOKLET (24 PAGES) CONTAINS INSTRUCTIONS, ARTWORKS AND CODE SNIPPETS + AUDIO & VIDEO FILES + REALTIME EXECUTABLE FILES WORLDWIDE REGISTERED SHIPPING FLOPPY €40 DOWNLOAD €10 The limited edition is sold out. We are restocking and shipping will continue around December 18th. Functio...
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Bitcoin Hits a Milestone: $100k

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.The price of a single Bitcoin rose to six figures for the first time, an extraordinary level for a 16-year-old cryptocurrency once dismissed as a sideshow.Lis...
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Unlocking the Power of DynamoDB: A Developer's Journey

pablosblog.dev
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